Are You Explaining or Selling?
It is interesting the difference if you take just 10 seconds to consider the difference. I speak with literally hundreds of people on a weekly basis and have the opportunity to ask a lot of the same questions during my initial “exploratory” interviews. Some of the responses would amaze you if you thought about it. [...]
Networking: How 283.5 People Landed a Job
Two types of networking…in-person and online. So in-person networking quite frankly is awkward and kinda sucks actually. Let me tell you that in my career, it is my job to observe people and the interactions amongst them. We have all heard, read and maybe even lived the fact that networking is the best way to [...]
3 Myths About Finding a Job in Today’s Market
There are at least 17,248 myths that I can randomly pop off the top of my head about finding a job in today’s ever changing job landscape. I decided to narrow that down to three for palatability. Whether you are seeking a job as a sales person, creative or search marketing professional, direct response guru [...]
How To Answer The Interview Question: “Why should we hire you?”
“Why should we hire you?” This can be a tough question to answer as you do not want to come across over confident (or cocky) but you want to answer it with strong words to show confidence that you are the person for the position. What is the motive of the interviewer? The interviewer wants [...]
How to Answer the Interview Question: “How hands on are you?”
What is the motive of the interviewer with this question…”How hands on are you?” Interview questions like this are more introspective into your attitude versus the actual words coming out of your mouth. This is more of a question for Your attitude would answer if you are a team player…if you are “too big” for [...]
How to Answer Interview Question: “What is the most creative thing you have done?”
“What is the most creative thing that you have done?” What is the motive of this question? Keep in mind when answering an interview question, a hiring authority has something specific in mind. They want to see if #1 you are actually a creative thinker #2 if what you do is actually creative #3 can [...]
How to Find a Job, the secret sauce
This is a tough subject to discuss. However, some of the difficult to topics need to be addressed. If you are unemployed…are you looking for a job or are you on vacation? See what I mean? This is a tough one. Unfortunately we are dealt with a dramatic situation filled with negative, but real, words [...]
How to be prepared for an interview
Our team interviews hundreds of people on a weekly basis. People that range on all levels of skills and abilities and despite career accomplishments there is a common theme. People are not prepared for interviews. People, do we understand the importance of this conversation? I want to walk through some interview tips and techniques to [...]
Interview Tip of the Day
The Interview Tip of the Day is brought to us by a young man that (almost) let internet research stand in the way of the career opportunity of his life. Fortunately for this individual, he was working with me and I helped advise some sense into him. TIP – Do not judge an opportunity too [...]
How “Not To” Interview
My friends…stop it. “NOT TO” Tip #1 – When you are looking for a job don’t have your significant other screen your calls. The other day I called a person and his wife answered the call and said, “my husband is not home, who is this?” When I told her that I was a recruiter, she [...]